Knowledge cultures : comparative Western and African epistemology /

This volume compares the western ideas of knowledge with the African. It aims at creating a mirror through which the western knowledge culture can look at itself through an unusual and interesting angle. The culture of Sub-Saharan Africa is the substance from which we, in this book, have tried to co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hamminga, Bert, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Colección:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 88.
Temas:
Knowledge, Theory of > Africa.
Philosophy, African.
Théorie de la connaissance > Afrique.
Philosophie africaine.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
Philosophy, African
Kennistheorie.
Afrikaanse filosofie.
Vergelijkende filosofie.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The power of knowledge / Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
  • African studies and the concept of knowledge / Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Epistemology from the African point of view / Bert Hamminga
  • Language, reality and truth: the African point of view / Bert Hamminga
  • On the collective subjects in epistemology: the Marxist case and a problem for the African viewpoint
  • The Poznań view: how to mean what you say / Bert Hamminga.

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